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they are not at the moment - the blog is hosted on wordpress so the link goes back to that site. Should i add them with HTML or as PDF to my site?

I have noticed that some of the sites that I link to also lost some PR so perhaps this is why. I have added links since the last update but most of them had good page and domain authority with average PR. I did also remove outbound links from my home page to authoritative sites on the advice of someone. Perhaps I should add these back? The only other reason I have been given is that google is penalizing sites that have reciprocal links with others sites (just a few) from my home page. Does this make sense?

I have embedded them for the ease of use by users of my site. For example, I have 60 pages of blog posts in one embed that people can page through easily to read. Is there a better way to do this?

thanks very much - good points

I have added a number of widgets and gadgets to my site that I suspect act like Iframes. If true do these widgets and gadgets and the content that they are linked to help or hurt my site from an SEO perspective? Examples are facebook gadget, wordpress blidget, weather gadget, google maps widget.

I have been using SCRIBD to embed PDF documents on my site but until recently I did not include the link back to SCRIBD. Will my site get credit for this content or will it go to SCRIBD? Is there a better way to embed PDF documents for SEO?

I have heard quality is the most important factor for page rank but after the 7 Nov 11 PR update I am no longer a believer. The PR on my home page dropped from 4 to 3 and the rest of my inside pages remained the same even though I have added a significant amount of content since the previous update and kept it fresh. Any thoughts on this most recent PR update?

I read an SEO article that recommended getting backlinks from social bookmarking sites like diggo.com. Does anyone have any thoughts on the usefulness of these types of links?

thanks Ryan I will do as you suggest

thanks very much for the clarification

Hi Alan, your last response to my most recent post just lost me. Godaddy does not host my ste

Godadday does not host my site so if I redirect the mydomain.com to mydomain.ca through them I assume that this will take care of both the sub-domain and root domain between the .com and .ca domains but that I will be effectively removing the .com from my host server. Will this have any negative effect on my .ca? Also since godadday does not host the .ca can I do a 301 from mydomain.ca to www.mydomain.ca through them.

Is it sufficient to redirect  mydomain.ca to www.mydomain.ca or will I also need to redirect mydomain.com to mydomain.ca?

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Hi Alan, I tried to address this by going to google webmaster tools and establishing the .ca as the preferred domain. I also added a canonical tag to identify the .ca as primary. Not sure if this is enough. My web host says that they do not do 301 redirects and after talking to godaddy.com about how it is set up they suggested leaving as is. I am concerned about google searches but less so with other search engines. As far as code goes I did a  W3C html markup and noticed quite a number of tag issues but they all seemed to be with what I cannot access (part of how the templates are set up by the host) as a user (unless I just do not know how). Any additional thoughts on this would be appreciated

Brett

Thanks very much. Makes sense and I had not thought of this.

No it is not mine. Good point on the relevancy of the pages. Something I had not thought of and will investigate. Thanks for this as I am trying to better understand all of the factors that could affect SERP

I have heard that edu and gov backlinks are important but how so in a niche area like mine - real estate? Perhaps I am missing the point but I do not see how either type of site would ever backlink to a commercial real estate entity. If these are that important in theory, are they obtainable in practice?

some great points made here to think about. Would these same thoughts apply to a social bookmarking site like diigo.com? The inference from the SEO article I read was that a site like this has high authority and pr and a backlink would be worthwile. I just do not see how this would be so given that the site is not related at all to real estate?

When competing with sites for SERP that have much lower authority according to OSE, lower page rank, and far fewer, lower authority sites, what other major factor would account for differences other than time?